Sorry guys, don't get the time to daily peruse NAT like I have in the past; however, with winter certainly here, maybe I can at least keep up with you all. Possibly this has been covered recently, if so, it won't hurt to get it out again.

I'm sure most of you know that the EPA has proposed lowering RFS volumes of conventional biofuels both year over year and from mandated levels for 2014. I also believe that this proposal is not in the best interest of anyone on this board or any that have ties with US agriculture or rural America, even my friend Hedge Fund Farmer. This is a big deal and we all need to oppose it vocally.

There are several ways to do just that.

By e-mailing the EPA directly:  [email protected]   please use the subject line: "Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR 2013-0479"
  
The Governor of Iowa has set up this website to submit petitions to the EPA: http://protecttherfs.com/

Here's great page of links from ACE, tabs can take you to your congressional folks:  http://www.ethanol.org/magazine/index.php?id=110

Iowa Corn is leading the charge, with a great message & presence at the EPA hearing last week and this link:   http://www.iowacorn.org/index.cfm?nodeID=69912&audienceID=1  with direct response to EPA.

NCGA:    http://www.ncga.com/rfs

Vets join Progressives on this site fighting for the RFS:   http://www.savetherfs.com/

And the list goes on.  I'm sure there's dozens or hundreds more.

A little quip from my testimony last week:

......"The expansion of the RFS in 2007 gave us confidence in our quest to build an industry from the ground up and goals to be attained in meeting RFS volumes. The build out of today’s corn ethanol industry and the bio-diesel industry in those years in the middle of the last decade is truly an amazing American success story. The billions in equity and debt financing put at risk and rolled into not only the processing plants themselves, but the attending infrastructure and advancing sciences and technologies, was truly incredible. The size and scope of this build out was something rural America had never seen before. Ethanol's rising tide has lifted everyone's boat out there where I'm from in "fly-over" country............We've got a conventional biofuels industry that has the capacity & willingness to produce and a more than adequate supply of renewable feedstocks, and the RFS is what made this a reality.

Now is not the time to roll back the RFS."